Nine Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) teachers have been selected as Princeton Scholars by the First Coast Scholars Office of the Schultz Center for Teaching and Leadership, Jesse Ball duPont Fund and Princeton Alumni.
These educators will be spending a week on the campus of Princeton University studying under the instruction of Dr. U.C. Knoepflmacher, Princeton University's Paton Foundation professor emeritus of ancient and modern literature.
Dr. Knoepflmacher is a specialist in children's literature as well as 19th century British text. The title of the class is Children in Transition and the focus is to assist each teacher in developing additional lesson plans.
The Princeton Scholars are: Suzanne Copley, Paxon Middle School; Osman Demirel, River City Science Academy; Rama Guduru, Paxon School for Advanced Studies; Sandra Hay, Mandarin Middle School; Katina Higgins, Englewood High School; Carmen Jones, Justina Road Elementary; Victoria Lindsey, Louis Sheffield Elementary; Elaine Pozin,
teacher for the visually impaired; and Brenda Richards, West Jacksonville Elementary.
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